How is it that our old TV gets fixed after I slapped it?

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I just remembered when I was a kid(Im on my 30’s now) we had this old “box style” television. As it got older, there were times that a white thing will appear on the screen. You can still watch the show but its annoying. Imagine watching your TV while having a white curtain in front of it. One day, I got extremely furious because I was watching Smackdown and slap the side of the TV. Then, it returned to normal. I kept doing the same solution I discovered every time the white thing appears on screen until one day it stopped functioning. 😂

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If you go way back, TVs had tubes. Tubes were eventually replaced by transistors. Most of the tubes fit into a socket soldered into the main board of the TV. After a while the connectors in these sockets would tarnish, which could cause unpredictable behavior in the TV. A good jolt would reseat the tubes in the sockets and things would start working again.

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